The Real Guide: Brazil

Travel

Marshall, Oliver

Jenkins, Dilwyn

Cleary, David

Hine, Jim

South America

PRENTICE/HALL

For many the phrase "gold rush" conjures up images of the 1849ers panning for gold in the western United States. But in 1979, the biggest gold rush of this century began in the Brazilian Amazon and has continued unabated ever since.\nDespite attempts by governments and mining companies to control it, the Amazon gold rush has flourished, involving hundreds of thousands of miners in an informal-sector industry which produces over a billion dollars' worth of gold annually. Moreover, the mining activity has become famous—or infamous—well beyond Brazil, thanks to the furor it has raised in the environmental community.\nThis important anthropological study takes the first broad and balanced look at the gold rush to explain its history, the social organization of the gold camps, the politics and the economics of gold in Brazil, and the implications of the gold rush for Amazonia and its people.

Anatomy of the Amazon gold rush ([St. Antony's/Macmillan series])

History

Americas

Macmillan, in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford

This volume examines supply chains in the computer systems industry. Three firms are studied in detail: a disk-drive manufacturer, a multinational computer systems corporation, and a drinks company in the throes of reorganising its extensive computer systems. The authors look at the management of supplier-user relationships, the processes of product development, the use of total quality management techniques, and the reality of strategic partnerships. This volume provides a framework for thinking about the relationships between the structure of an organisation and its handling of important suppliers or customers. It will help understanding of the social basis of managing change in the workplace.

Organisational Change and the Management of Expertise (Organisational Behaviour and Management)

Business & Money

Webb, Janette

Management & Leadership

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

For many the phrase "gold rush" conjures up images of the 1849ers panning for gold in the western United States. But in 1979, the biggest gold rush of this century began in the Brazilian Amazon and has continued unabated ever since.Despite attempts by governments and mining companies to control it, the Amazon gold rush has flourished, involving hundreds of thousands of miners in an informal-sector industry which produces over a billion dollars' worth of gold annually. Moreover, the mining activity has become famous€”or infamous€”well beyond Brazil, thanks to the furor it has raised in the environmental community.This important anthropological study takes the first broad and balanced look at the gold rush to explain its history, the social organization of the gold camps, the politics and the economics of gold in Brazil, and the implications of the gold rush for Amazonia and its people.

Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

University Of Iowa Press

The Rough Guide to Brazil is the most comprehensive and detailed guide to the largest country in South America. Filled with entertaining indepth accounts of all the major cities and towns, as well as the best beaches, jungle tours, and hiking trips. A full colour introduction gives an immediate flavour of the vibrant country with striking photographs of the country''s many attractions and activities, from joining the parades at the Rio Carnival to taking a boat trip up the Amazon. There is informative background on everything from Brazilian art to the most infamous favelas (shanty towns) giving the reader a sound context to help understand the country they are visiting. Practical advice on getting around is supported by over 70 maps and plans and extensive listings sections giving insightful reviews into accommodation, restaurants and bars for every budget.

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The Rough Guide to Brazil

More a continent than a country, Brazil offers a huge variety of attractions for the traveler. This completely revised edition covers it all: from Rio, the most beautiful city on Earth, to the wilds of Amazonia, from carnaval to colonial churches, from samba to scuba. 60 maps and plans.

Brazil: The Rough Guide, Second Edition

Describes the sights, museums, restaurants, and accommodations of Brazil, with sections on history, geography, and language

Brazil: The Rough Guide, Third Edition

INTRODUCTION 
Brazilians often say they live in a continent rather than a country, and that’s an excusable exaggeration. The landmass is bigger than the United States if you exclude Alaska; the journey from Recife in the east to the western border with Peru is longer than that from London to Moscow, and the distance between the northern and southern borders is about the same as that between New York and Los Angeles. Brazil has no mountains to compare with its Andean neighbours, but in every other respect it has all the scenic – and cultural – variety you would expect from so vast a country. 
Despite the immense expanses of the interior, roughly two-thirds of Brazil’s population live on or near the coast; and well over half live in cities – even in the Amazon. In Rio and São Paulo, Brazil has two of the world’s great metropolises, and nine other cities have over a million inhabitants. Yet Brazil still thinks of itself as a frontier country, and certainly the deeper into the interior you go, the thinner the population becomes. Nevertheless, the frontier communities have expanded relentlessly during the last fifty years, usually hand in hand with the planned expansion of the road network into remote regions. 
Other South Americans regard Brazilians as a race apart, and language has a lot to do with it – Brazilians understand Spanish, just about, but Spanish-speakers won’t understand Portuguese. More importantly, though, Brazilians look different. They’re one of the most ethnically diverse peoples in the world: in the extreme south, German and Italian immigration has left distinctive European features; São Paulo has the world’s largest Japanese community outside Japan; there’s a large black population concentrated in Rio, Salvador and São Luís; while the Indian influence is most visible in the people of Amazônia and the Northeastern interior. 
Brazil is a land of profound economic contradictions. Rapid postwar industrialization made Brazil one of the world’s ten largest economies and put it among the most developed of Third World countries. But this has not improved the lot of the vast majority of Brazilians. The cities are dotted with favelas, shantytowns which crowd around the skyscrapers, and the contrast between rich and poor is one of the most glaring anywhere. There are wide regional differerences, too: Brazilians talk of a "Switzerland" in the Southeast, centred along the Rio–São Paulo axis, and an "India" above it; and although this is a simplification, it’s true that the level of economic development tends to fall the further north you go. This throws up facts which are hard to swallow. Brazil is the industrial powerhouse of South America, but cannot feed and educate its people. In a country almost the size of a continent, the extreme inequalities in land distribution have led to land shortages but not to agrarian reform. Brazil has enormous natural resources but their exploitation so far has benefited just a few. The IMF and the greed of First World banks must bear some of the blame for this situation, but institutionalized corruption and the reluctance of the country’s large middle class to do anything that might jeopardize its comfortable lifestyle are also part of the problem. 
These difficulties, however, rarely seem to overshadow everyday life in Brazil. It’s fair to say that nowhere in the world do people know how to enjoy themselves more – most famously in the annual orgiastic celebrations of Carnaval, but reflected, too, in the lively year-round nightlife that you’ll find in any decent-sized town. This national hedonism also manifests itself in Brazil’s highly developed beach culture; the country’s superb music and dancing; rich regional cuisines; and in the most relaxed and tolerant attitude to sexuality – gay and straight – that you’ll find anywhere in South America. And if you needed more reason to visit, there’s a strength and variety of popular culture, and a genuine friendliness and humour in the people that is tremendously welcoming and infectious.

The Rough Guide to Brazil, 4th Edition (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

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